Camille Grammer Quotes

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women.

I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

Reading the script for 'Jennifer's Body,' I just thought that here was a script that really exposes the horror between girls and friendships. I always sort of approached the film with that in mind first, and then thought about the crazy ways that that horror would express itself.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.

I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

In TV, a woman helping another woman break in? Not that common.

I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

As a female, you either have a whole bunch of female friends or none.

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

I grew up in a house of all girls, which was interesting. I think it made me a lot less catty because a lot of girls, especially who are around my age, are very catty and very mean to each other.

A lot of girls don't know how to get along, and they're always constantly in competition with each other, and everything is a huge fight. Every girl just wants to be better than every other girl.

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.